Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, October 18, 1999 Volume 35ÐNumber 41 Pages 1991±2064 Contents Addresses and Remarks Appointments and NominationsÐContinued American Academy of PediatricsÐ2006 Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Canada, Forum of Federations Conference in statementÐ2052 Mont-TremblantÐ1991 Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, statementÐ2051 Senate actionÐ2026 Democratic Leadership Council galaÐ2027 Forest ``Roadless'' AreasÐ2020 Bill Signings Illinois, U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute conference in ChicagoÐ2000 Department of Transportation and Related Millennium Evening at the White House, Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000, eighthÐ2015 statementÐ2005 National Summit on Community Food Family farmers, statement on legislation to Security, videotape remarksÐ2050 extend bankruptcy reliefÐ2006 NCAA men's and women's basketball championsÐ2053 Philip Morris company admissionÐ2020 Communications to Congress Radio addressÐ1998 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, U.S. Secret Service Memorial Building, message transmitting reportÐ2015 dedicationÐ2048 Virginia, George Washington National Cuba, message transmitting report on ForestÐ2020 telecommunications paymentsÐ2025 Youth violence, unveiling public service East Timor, letter transmitting report on announcementsÐ2055 deployment of U.S. forces to provide support to the multinational forceÐ1998 Appointments and Nominations Food Aid Convention 1999 with Defense Department documentation, message transmittingÐ2025 Commander in Chief, United States Space Naval Petroleum Reserves, message Command, and related positions, transmitting reportÐ2004 statementÐ2051 (Continued on the inside of the back cover.) 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ContentsÐContinued Communications to Federal Agencies Proclamations Forest ``Roadless'' Areas, memorandum on Columbus DayÐ1997 protectionÐ2023 National Forest Products WeekÐ2063 Individual Training Accounts for Federal White Cane Safety DayÐ2062 Workers, memorandumÐ2053 Statements by the President School-Based Health Insurance Outreach for See also Appointments and Nominations; Bill Children, memorandumÐ2013 Signings White House Council on Youth Violence, Death of former President Julius Nyerere of memorandumÐ2059 TanzaniaÐ2052 Hate crimes legislationÐ2024 Interviews With the News Media Independent Counsel's investigation of Exchange with reporters outside the Oval Interior Secretary BabbittÐ2024 OfficeÐ2026 Mexico, floods and mudslidesÐ2024 News conference, October 14 (No. 182)Ð Pakistan, military coup d'etatÐ2025 2035 World population growthÐ2015 Supplementary Materials Joint Statements Acts approved by the PresidentÐ2064 Joint United States-Norway StatementÐ2060 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ Meetings With Foreign Leaders 2064 Digest of other White House Canada, Prime Minister ChretienÐ1991 announcementsÐ2063 Norway, Prime Minister BondevikÐ2060 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ2064 Week Ending Friday, October 15, 1999 Remarks to the Forum of nership you have built between people of di- Federations Conference verse backgrounds and governments at all in Mont-Tremblant, Canada level is what this conference is about and, October 8, 1999 ultimately, what democracy must be about, as people all over the world move around Thank you. Thank you so much. Prime more, mix with each other more, live in close Minister Chretien; to the Prime Minister of proximity more. Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas; Pre- Today I would like to talk briefly about mier Bouchard; cochairs of this conference, the ways we in the United States are working Bob Rae and Henning Voscherau; to distin- to renew and redefine federalism for the 21st guished visitors; GovernorsÐI think the century; then, how I see the whole concept Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota, of federalism emerging internationally; and Carole Hillard, is hereÐand to all of you: finally, how weÐhow I think, anywayÐwe I think it is quite an interesting thing that should judge the competing claims of fed- we have this impressive array of people to eralism and independence in different con- come to a conference on federalism, a topic texts around the world. that probably 10 or 20 years ago would have First let me say we are 84 days, now, from been viewed as a substitute for a sleeping a new century and a new millennium. The pill. [Laughter] currents of change in how we work and live But in the aftermath of the conflicts in the and relate to each other, and relate to people former Yugoslavia; the interesting debatesÐ far across the world, are changing very rap- at least I can say this from the point of view idly. as your neighborÐthat has gone on in Que- President Franklin Roosevelt once said bec; the deepening, troubling efforts to rec- that new conditions impose new require- oncile different tribes who occupy nations ments upon government and those who con- with boundaries they did not draw in Africa; duct government. We know this to be the and any number of other issues, this topic case not only in the United States and Can- of federalism has become very, very impor- ada, Great Britain and Germany, Italy and tant. France, Mexico and Brazil, but indeed, in It is fitting that the first global conference all the countries of the world. But in all these would be held here in North America, be- places there is a federalist system of some cause federalism began hereÐa founding form or another. We look for ways to imbue principle forged in the crucible of revolution, old values with new life and old institutions enshrined in the Constitution of the United with new meaning. States, shared today by all three nations on In 1992, when I ran for President, there our continent, as I'm sure President Zedillo was a growing sense in the United States that said. the compact between the people and their It is also especially fitting that this con- Government, and between the States and the ference be held in Canada. A land larger than Federal Government, was in severe dis- China, spanning 5 times zones and 10 distinct repair. This was driven largely by the fact provinces, it has shown the world how people that our Federal Government had quad- of different cultures and languages can live rupled the national debt in 12 years, and that in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect. had led to enormous interest rates, slow In the United States, we have valued our growth, and grave difficulties on all the States relationship with a strong and united Canada. of our land which they were powerless to We look to you; we learn from you. The part- overcome. 1991 1992 Oct. 8 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1999 So when the Vice President and I ran for charge of, made an attempt to redefine the national office, we had no debate from peo- mission of the Federal Government. And we ple who said, ``Look, this is a national priority told the people of the United States that we and you have to deal with it.'' But we talked actually thought the Federal Government a lot to Governors and others about the ne- was too large in size, that it should be smaller cessity to create again what our Founding but more active, and that we should do more Fathers called the laboratories of democracy. in partnerships with State and local govern- We, frankly, admitted that no one knew all ments and the private sector, with the ulti- the answers to America's large welfare case- mate goal of empowering the American peo- load, to America's enormous crime rate, to ple to solve their own problems in whatever America's incredible diversity of children and unit was most appropriate, whether it was challenges in our schools. And so we said we an individual citizen, the family, the commu- would try to give new direction to the Nation nity, the State, or the Nation. and deal with plainly national problems, but And we have worked at that quite steadily. we would also try to build a new partnership Like Canada, we turned our deficit around that would make all of our States feel more and produced a surplus. We also shrank the a part of our union and more empowered size of the Federal Government. The size of in determining their own destiny. the United States Federal Government today Now, people develop this federalist system is the same as it was in 1962, when John for different reasons. It came naturally to the Kennedy was President, and our country was United States because Great Britain set up much, much smaller. colonies here as separate entities. And the In the economic expansion we have been States of our country actually created the Na- enjoying since 1993, the overwhelming ma- tional Government. So we always had a sense jority of the jobs that were created were cre- that there were some things the States were ated in the private sector.